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Alexander Cockburn
July 27, 2011   |    This article appeared in the August 15-22, 2011 edition of The Nation.
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A bet on a horse in the 1949 Grand National resulted in the largest collective transfer of wealth ever to communism's stalwarts in Britain.

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Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Cockburn, The Nation's "Beat the Devil" columnist and one of America's best-known radical...

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Alexander Cockburn
July 27, 2011   |    This article appeared in the August 15-22, 2011 edition of The Nation.
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